Motherwell's Manuscript, p. 470, communicated apparently by Buchan;
'The Gordons and the Grants,' Buchan's Ballads of the North of
Scotland, II, 220.
| 1 |
'Away with you, away with you, James de Grant!
And, Douglas, ye'll be slain;
For Baddindalloch's at your gates,
With many brave Highland men.' |
| 2 |
'Baddindalloch has no feud at me,
And I have none at him;
Cast up my gates baith broad and wide,
Let Baddindalloch in.' |
| 3 |
'James de Grant has made a vaunt,
And leaped the castle-wa;
But, if he comes this way again,
He'll no win sae well awa. |
| 4 |
'Take him, take him, brave Gordons,
O take him, fine fellows a'!
If he wins but ae mile to the Highland hills,
He'll defy you Gordons a'.' |
